The 2011 Golden Globe Nominations

This year’s Golden Globe nominations have been announced with The Weinstein Company’s “The Artist” scoring the most nods with six. Combined with numerous other wins from various critics associations, the black-and-white silent film has become the clear front runner in the run-up to the Oscars.

Not far behind at the Globes are “The Descendants” and “The Help” which both scored five, while “The Ides of March,” “Midnight in Paris” and “Moneyball” got four. All the above mentioned also got Best Picture nominations, joined by “War Horse” and “Hugo” in the drama category along with “50/50”, “Bridesmaids” and “My Week with Marilyn” in the comedy/musical section. Also of note is that Ryan Gosling scored nominations for Best Actor in both drama (“The Ides of March”) and comedy (“Crazy Stupid Love”). Big shockers were the lack of nominations for both “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” and “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”.

Over in the TV realm and it was mostly new cable shows dominating drama with the second season of “Boardwalk Empire” going up against the first seasons of “American Horror Story,” “Boss,” “Game of Thrones” and “Homeland” for the ‘Best Television Series: Drama’ category. “Glee,” “Modern Family,” “New Girl,” “Enlightened” and “Episodes” will fight it out for the best comedy series honour. Also scoring noms in acting categories were “Breaking Bad,” “The Borgias,” “The Good Wife,” “The Killing,” “Revenge,” “30 Rock,” “Hung,” “Californication” and “Parks and Recreation”.

The mini-series/TV movie category is mostly made up of several nominations for British imports “Downton Abbey” and “The Hour” along with HBO productions “Cinema Verite,” “Mildred Pierce” and “Too Big To Fail”.

Best Actress In A Motion Picture – DramaGlenn Close for “Albert Nobbs”Viola Davis for “The Help”Rooney Mara for “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”Meryl Streep for “The Iron Lady”Tilda Swinton for “We Need To Talk About Kevin”

Best Actor In A Motion Picture – DramaGeorge Clooney for “The Descendants”Leonardo DiCaprio for “J. Edgar”Michael Fassbender for “Shame”Ryan Gosling for “The Ides of March”Brad Pitt for “Moneyball”

Best Actress In A Motion Picture – Comedy Or MusicalJodie Foster for “Carnage”Charlize Theron for “Young Adult”

Kristen Wiig for “Bridesmaids”Michelle Williams for “My Week With Marilyn”Kate Winselt for “Carnage”

Best Actor In A Motion Picture – Comedy Or MusicalJean DuJardin for “The Artist”Brendan Gleeson for “The Guard”Joseph Gordon-Levitt for “50/50”Ryan Gosling for “Crazy, Stupid, Love”Owen Wilson for “Midnight in Paris”

Best Supporting Actor In A Motion PictureKenneth Branagh for “My Week With Marilyn”Albert Brooks for “Drive”Jonah Hill for “Moneyball”Viggo Mortensen for “A Dangerous Method”Christopher Plummer for “Beginners”

Best Director – Motion PictureWoody Allen for “Midnight in Paris”George Clooney for “The Ides of March”

Best Foreign Language Film“The Flowers of War” (China)“In the Land of Blood and Honey” (USA)“The Kid With A Bike” (Belgium)“A Separation” (Iran)“The Skin I Live In” (Spain)

Best Original Score – Motion PictureLudovic Bource for “The Artist”Abel Korzeniowski for “W.E.”Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”Howard Shore for “Hugo”John Williams for “War Horse”

Best Original Song – Motion Picture “Hello Hello” from “Gnomeo & Juliet”“The Keeper” from “Machine Gun Preacher”“Lay Your Head Down” from “Albert Nobbs”“The Living Proof” from “The Help”“Masterpiece” from “W.E.”

Best Actress In A TV Series – DramaClaire Danes for “Homeland”Mireille Enos for “The Killing”Julianna Margulies for “The Good Wife”Madeleine Stowe for “Revenge”Callie Thorne for “Necessary Roughness

Best Actor In A TV Series – Drama Steve Buscemi for “Boardwalk Empire”Bryan Cranston for “Breaking Bad”Kelsey Grammer for “Boss”Jeremy Irons for “The Borgias”Damian Lewis for “Homeland”

Best Actress In A TV Series – Comedy Or MusicalLaura Dern for “Enlightened”Zooey Deschanel for “New Girl”Tina Fey for “30 Rock”Laura Linney for “The Big C”Amy Poehler for “Parks and Recreation

Best Actor In A TV Series – Comedy Or MusicalAlec Baldwin for “30 Rock”

David Duchovny for “Californication”

Johnny Galecki for “The Big Bang Theory”

Thomas Jane for “Hung”Matt Le Blanc for “Episode”

Best Actress In A Mini-Series or TV MovieRomola Garai for “The Hour”Diane Lane for “Cinema Verite”Elizabeth McGovern for “Downton Abbey”Emily Watson for “Appropriate Adult”Kate Winslet for “Mildred Pierce”

Best Actor In A Mini-Series or TV MovieHugh Bonneville for “Downton Abbey”Idris Elba for “Luther”William Hurt for “Too Big To Fail”Bill Nighy for “Page Eight”Dominic West for “The Hour”

Best Supporting Actor In A TV Series, Mini-Series or TV MoviePeter Dinklage for “Game of Thrones”Paul Giamatti for “Too Big To Fail”Guy Pearce for “Mildred Pierce”Tim Robbins for “Cinema Verite”Eric Stonestreet for “Modern Family”